I expected it to mostly follow this description and was willing to overlook it being "inspired by true events".

Turns out it's more of a story of a grown woman, Melissa Moore, coming to terms with her father being a serial killer. There are some flash backs to her childhood.

That can be fine, as well. But apparently, most of what they're basing the show around is completely fictional. I have more of an issue with this since Moore is an executive producer of the show.

I'm only two episodes in but it revolves around Moore teaming up with a TV producer to try to help uncover the truth about a victim he claims to have killed that someone else was falsely incarcerated for.

This is where it really gets annoying. In the series, through clues given by the father, they sleuth out who the missing victim is and find out her black boyfriend was convicted of the murder with the sole evidence being a finger print left on the steering wheel. And he is currently sitting on death row with just a couple of months until execution.

The reason I bring up the race of the wrongly convicted BF is because they make it a point of emphasis that he was convicted on flimsy evidence in a small, racist Texas town. And they beat us over the head that there's no way of him having a chance of getting retried fairly in conservative Texas. So, she has to push aside her fear of being outted as the daughter of a serial killer, so she can help undo this racial injustice.

Here's as close as this gets to reality. The HF killers first victim was Taunja Bennett and she was murdered in Oregon.

A woman by the name of Laverne Pavlinac falsely confessed and wrongly implicated her then boyfriend John Sosnovske as the killers. They were both sentenced. Pavlinac received 10 years while Sosnovske received a life sentence.

Once the HF killer was caught for having murdered his girlfriend he also confessed to the killing of Bennett (as well as 6 other) and Pavlinacinac and Sosnovske were eventually released after serving 6 years.

OK, so there was a wrongly convicted BF involved but had nothing to do with the victim. And it was shoddy police work by Oregon police that resulted in the him being wrongly imprisoned, not Texas. And here's what the wrongly convicted man looks like:




So, no racism involved and no Texas. I can only imagine that was included to push a political narrative. Plus, Moore had no involvement in helping to exonerate anyone or in uncovering any additional victims. I have real issues with this since it's based on a real killer with real victims.

It's bad enough when Hollywood takes their own liberties to sensationalize these types of tragic events. It takes on a who new level when the killers daughter gives the green light.

She's using this to prop herself up with this saviors plot. It just looks like a massive money grab now. I have no idea how awful it is to be saddled with that type of family history but shame on her for being OK with it to push political agendas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laverne_Pavlinac